Vecketable-slicer



R. D. SMITH AND H. A. STEELE.

VEGETABLE SLICER. APPLICATION FILED Dime. 191e,

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VEGETABLE SLICER.

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Patented Sept. 23, 1919.

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ROLLAND D. SMITH AND HARRY A. STEELE, 0F CLEVELAND, OHIO.

VEGETABLE-SLICER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 23, 1919.

Application filed December 16, 1918. Serial No. 266,972.

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, RoLLANn D. SMITH, HARRY A. STEELE, citizens of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Vegetable-Slicers, of which the following is a specification. j

This invention relates to vegetable Slicers, the main object in view being to produce an exceedingly simpl-e, effective and cheaply manufactured and maintained slieer of the character referred to in which a maximum sweep of the cutting blades within the hop-l per is provided for by the novel manner of mounting the shaft and eut-ting disk of the slicer with relation to the bottom portion of the hopper where the outlet orifice of the hopper is located.

A further object of the invention 1s to provide a novel construction and arrangement of the walls of the hopper in relation to the rotary shaft of the slicer whereby maximum efliciency is produced in the operation of the machine.

A further object of the invention is to so mount the hopper upon a supporting stand in an elevated position that the hopper and stand are detachably fastened together by the rotary shaft of the device which is removable, enabling the cutting disk and hopper and stand to be separated from each other for cleaning purposes, thus rendering the device sanitary as a whole.

With the above and other objects and ad* vantages in View the invention consists in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts herein fully described, illustrated and claimed.

In the acco-mpanying drawings Figure 1 is a vertical transverse section through the slicer.

Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the slicer..

Fig. 3 is a vertical diametrical section through the disk shaped cutter showing one of the cutting blades and discharge orifices.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged fragmentary vertical transverse section taken adjacent to the shaft and showing the connection between the hopper and the supporting stand.

Fig. 5 is a section on the line 5-5 of Fig. 4;. l

In carrying out the present invention, we employ a hopper having an inclined front Wall 1, a substantially upright rear wall 2 and inclined end walls 3. The front side wall l and the end wall 3 converge downwardly toward the bottom of the hopper as clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The front and rear side walls l and 2 have their lower marginal portions extending downwardly to provide parallel flanges l which are arranged in spaced relation to each other to provide an elongated outlet orifice for the slices removed from the vegetables by the rotary cutter hereinafter' described.

In connection with the hopper, above described, we employ a supporting stand for holding' said hopper at an elevation. Said supporting stand comprises a plurality of inclined and downwardly diverging legs 5, the upper extremities of which being connected together by longitudinal and transverse frame members G and 7 respectively. The lower extremities of the legs 5 are preferably extended horizontally to provide clamping feet S adapted to be fastened to a. table or other horizontal supporting mem- 'ber 9 by means of clamps 10 or equivalent fastening means.

The longitudinal frame members 6 are formed with channels 11 adapted to receive the flanges -t at the bottom of the hopper as most clearly illustrated in Fig. 4, the feature just referred to being a part of the means for detachably fastening the hopper to its subordinate stand. The flanges l and the frame members 6 arc formed with alining openings 1'2 to receive a rotary shaft 13 which therefore has`its bearing in said members 4; and 6. The shaft 13 has a head or stop shoulder 1l at one end thereof and the other end portion of said shaft is threaded as shown at 15, adapting an operating crank handle 16 to be threaded thereon. A spacing collar or sleeve 17 surrounds the shaft 13 between the operating crank handle 1G and the adjacent longitudinal frame member G of the supporting stand, said collar or sleeve serving to prevent endwise movement of said shaft. It will new be understood that when the rota-ry shaft is in place, the hopper is fastened securedly to the supporting stand.

Fastened upon the shaft 13 is a disk shaped rotary cutter 18 having a central hole 19 to receive the shaft 13, said cutter being fastened to the sha ft by means of nuts 20 threaded upon said shaft and 'bearing upon the opposite side faces of the disk shaped cutter. The cutter 18 in the preferred embodiment of the invention is provided with a plurality of radially extending cutting blades 2l formed byplunging out a portion of the metal at intervals, thejforination of said cutting blade also providing radially extending discharge orifices 22 which lie immediately adjacent to the cutting blade and allow the slices of vegetables to pass through the disk shaped cutter after which they fall through .the lbottom discharge, orifice of the hopper and into a suitable recep tacle placed under the stand and between the legs thereof. Y

By reason of the construction and ar rangement hereinabove described it will now be seen that each of the cutting blades 21 extends practically the whole vlength of the outlet orifice of the hopper, Vthis being due to the locationof the rotary shaft l13 which Y will be seen is arranged-in one of thebotfor deta-chably fastening the hopper to its'` toni corners of the hopper at the point of nearest convergence of the inclined front side wall of the hopper and the inclined and downwardly converging end walls thereof. In order to accommodate such location of the shaft 13, one of the end walls of the hopper` is formed with an upright slot 23 through which the disk shaped cutter 1S works. It will also be understood that the shaft 13 may be removed by detaching the operating crank handle and by removing the rotary cutter. This enables said shaft to be withdrawn fromits position and alsopermit the hopper and its supporting stand to be.

separated. The several partsl of the slicer may be then thoroughly cleaned in order to maintain the device as a whole in a thoroughly sanitary condition. The main features of the invention reside in the location, of the shaft 13, the relation of the; diskshapedcutter to the hopper, and theY means supporting stand.

We claim 1. In a vegetable slicer, a hopper having an upright side wall, an inclined side wall Copies of this patent may be obtained. for five cents each, by addressing the .Goimmissoner oirlatents, Y

opposite thereto and two inclined end walls,

all of s-aid inclined walls converging downwardly toward the bottom ofthe hopper, said side; walls having their lower marginal portions extended downwardly to form parallel flanges in spaced relation to each other, a rotary shaft passing through saidffflanges in one of the bottom corner angles where thetwo side walls and one of the end walls most nearly converge and a disk-shaped: rotary cutter fast on said shaft and wedging through Ia slotiinone, of thefendf walls of they hopper, said cutter havinglta slicing blade anda slice dischargingorifice substantially Vradial tof saidl shaft. anch reaching-.nearly the full length ofthe hopper bottom. Y

2. In a vegetable slicer, a hopperhaving opposite theretoA and twoinclined end walls',

stantially radialto said' shaft andreaching nearly the full length of the hopperbottoni and a supporting stand having elevated horizontal frame membersV formeidwith channels which receive thev bottom flanges of the hopper, said-frame members and iianges having openings to detachably receive said shaft, the latter beingl removabley therefrom.

In testimony whereof weaffixour. signatures.k

RQLLANDV D. SMITH. HARRY A. sTEAELE.

y Washington, 11. C. 

